Terms of Use

Last updated: 9 August 2026 Version: 2026-08-09

Alpha notice. Humeur is in invite-only early access, built and run by one person. Things will break. These terms are written to be honest about that rather than to pretend otherwise.

The short version

Humeur is a mood journal, not a medical service and not a crisis line.
Your account is yours. Your data is yours. You can export or delete it at any time, free.
If you lose your password and your recovery code, your encrypted notes are gone permanently. I cannot recover them.
Early access is free. If that changes, you'll hear it from me before it does, not from a paywall.
I'm one person. There's no uptime guarantee and no support desk — but hello@humeur.dev reaches me directly.

1. Agreement

By creating a Humeur account or using the app, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't create an account — you can still use Humeur locally without one.

These terms are between you and Dakotah Godfrey, sole developer, based in Ontario, Canada.

2. Humeur is not medical care

This matters more than anything else here, so it's near the top.

Humeur does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It's a self-tracking tool. It records what you tell it and shows it back to you. It does not interpret your mood, detect deterioration, flag risk, or alert anyone.

Nobody monitors your entries. Not me, not an algorithm, not a clinician. If you write that you're in danger, nothing happens — no notification is sent and no one is watching. Humeur is not a crisis service.

If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line. Humeur links to crisis resources for several regions; those are independent third-party services, and their availability and accuracy are theirs, not mine. Those links are never behind a paywall, an account, or an invite, and never will be.

Talk to a professional before making care decisions. If you bring a Humeur summary to an appointment, it's a record of what you entered — not a clinical assessment. Don't change medication or treatment based on what a chart in this app appears to show.

3. Your account

You must be 16 or older to create an account.

You're responsible for keeping your password and recovery code safe. Because of how Humeur encrypts your notes, this responsibility is unusually consequential — see section 4.

One account per person. Don't share your credentials.

Invite codes, during early access, are issued to a specific email address and work once. Don't share yours; it will only work for the address it was issued to.

4. Encryption, and what it costs you

Your written notes and hospital-admission markers are encrypted on your device with a key derived from your password. Nobody else can read them — not me, not anyone with server access.

The unavoidable consequence: if you lose both your password and your recovery code, those notes cannot be recovered by anyone, including me. Not "it's difficult" — it's cryptographically impossible. There is no backdoor, no master key, and no support process that can retrieve them.

You'll be shown a recovery code once, when you first sign up. It is shown exactly once and never again, because the plaintext is never stored anywhere. Save it somewhere you'll still have in a year.

If you lose your recovery code but still know your password, you can generate a new one. If you lose your password but have your recovery code, you can reset the password and keep your notes. If you lose both, you can reset your password and keep using the account — but the old encrypted notes stay unreadable forever.

Your mood ratings are not encrypted and are readable by me and by the hosting providers. This is described in detail in the Privacy Policy. It's stated here too because you should not have to read two documents to learn it.

5. What you may and may not do

Use Humeur for tracking your own mood. That's it, and that's plenty.

Don't:

Use it to store someone else's health information without their consent
Attempt to access another person's account or data
Probe, scan, or attack the service, or attempt to circumvent invite codes or rate limits
Automate, scrape, or resell the service
Use it to break the law

I may suspend an account that's doing these things. For anything short of abuse I'll email you first.

Security research is welcome — email hello@humeur.dev. Don't test against other people's accounts, and don't publish before I've had a reasonable chance to fix it.

6. Your content is yours

You keep all rights to what you write. I claim no ownership of your entries.

I don't use your entries to train machine-learning models. I don't sell them. I don't share them. The only permission you give me is the technical one required to store and sync your data so the app works.

The software itself, its name, and its design remain mine.

7. Early access, and what it costs

Early access is currently free, including sync.

If pricing is introduced, existing early-access users will be told directly, by email, before any charge — never by discovering a paywall. You'll have the chance to export everything and leave.

Two things will always be free, regardless of plan:

Export. Getting your own data out is not a paid feature and never will be.
Crisis resources. These are never gated behind a plan, an account, or an invite.

8. Availability, or the lack of guarantees

Humeur is provided as is. It's an alpha, built by one person, running on third-party infrastructure.

There is no uptime guarantee. There is no guaranteed support response time. Features may change or disappear. Data loss is unlikely but possible — which is exactly why the export feature exists and is free. Export your data periodically. That's not boilerplate; it's the actual advice.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or lost profits, arising from your use of Humeur.

My total liability for any claim relating to Humeur is limited to the greater of: the amount you paid me in the twelve months before the claim, or CAD $50.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited. In particular, this section does not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any rights you have under Ontario's _Consumer Protection Act, 2002_ or comparable consumer legislation where you live. If you're a consumer, you keep every statutory right you have.

10. Ending things

You can leave at any time. Settings offers deleting your entries while keeping the account, or deleting the account and everything in it. Deletion is immediate and irreversible. Export first if you want a copy.

I may suspend or terminate an account for a clear breach of section 5, or if I discontinue Humeur entirely. Except in cases of abuse, I'll give you reasonable notice and time to export your data.

If Humeur shuts down, I'll give account holders at least 30 days' notice and keep export working for that whole period.

11. Changes to these terms

I'll notify account holders by email before material changes take effect. Continuing to use Humeur after that means you accept the new terms. If you don't, delete your account — and export first.

The version identifier at the top is recorded against your consent, so it's always possible to establish which version you agreed to.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction, though this doesn't deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws where you live.

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

13. Contact

Dakotah Godfrey — hello@humeur.dev

That address reaches a person, not a ticket queue. During early access it's also the support channel — replying to your invite email works too.